Red Army soldier who Raised the Victory Banner in Berlin
Alexei Berest
Berest c. 1945
Born
(1921-03-09)March 9, 1921 Horiaistivka, Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Died
November 4, 1970(1970-11-04) (aged 49) Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Buried
Alexandrovskoye Cemetery, Rostov-on-Don[1]
Allegiance
Soviet Union (1939–1948)
Years of service
1939–1948
Rank
Lieutenant
Battles/wars
Winter War World War II
Awards
Order of the Red Banner Order of the Patriotic War 1st class Medal "For the Capture of Berlin" Order of the Red Star Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Hero of Ukraine (posthumous)[2]
Alexei Prokopievich Berest (Russian: Алексей Прокопьевич Берест; Ukrainian: Олексій Прокопович Берест, romanized: Oleksiy Prokopovych Berest; March 9, 1921 – November 4, 1970) was a Soviet political officer and one of the three Red Army soldiers who hoisted the Victory Banner.
^Oleksi Berest in a site about the history of Ukraine.
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Егоров; May 5, 1923 – June 20, 1975), along with Meliton Kantaria and AlexeiBerest, was one of the three soldiers credited with raising the Soviet flag...
day, roughly at 03:00, his deputy for political affairs, Lieutenant AlexeiBerest, together with two scouts—Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton Kantaria—raised...
Regiment's 1st Battalion deputy commander for political affairs, Lieutenant AlexeiBerest - hoisted their flag on the Reichstag's roof roughly at 03:00, 1 May...
armoured troops in the Red Army during and following World War II. AlexeiBerest – Soviet political officer and one of the three Red Army soldiers who...
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structure, one of which – placed by Meliton Kantaria, Mikhail Yegorov and AlexeiBerest – was eventually proclaimed the official Victory Banner (Though the...
Post-Napoleonic Europe. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199981489. Julia Berest (2011). The Emergence of Russian Liberalism: Alexander Kunitsyn in Context...
Global Information
Soviet Union (1939–1948)